China - Foreign students: countries sending the most students to the UK

1. China

The country that sent the most students to the UK in 2010/11 by quite some
margin is the world's most populous – China. Some 67,325 Chinese students,
up an enormous 18.1 per cent from the previous year's 56,990, were enrolled
at UK universities last year. Jung Chang, the author of bestselling
autobiography Wild Swans as well as 2005's Mao: The Unknown Story,
left her homeland in the 1970s to seek a British education, enrolling at the University
of York and completing a doctorate in linguistics in 1982.